4:20AM Seth | You might have caught a movie this summer by the name of
The Dark Knight—a little film that featured [SPOILER ALERT] pencils through skulls, long-winded monologues about surgical disfigurement, and one incinerated Maggie Gyllenhaal—and at times thought to yourselves, “Perhaps this wasn’t the best choice for my daughter’s Girl Scouts troop monthly Fun Night outing.” But it was precisely its PG-13 rating that helped catapult the Chris Nolan film to its current record-breaking box office take of over five hundred gazillion dollars. Other directors are now wondering who at the MPAA they have to fuck to get a similar hall pass on their own darkly violent visions (and please, please God let it not be
the notoriously scissor-happy Joan “The Snipper” Graves). But according to
Max Payne director John Moore, it was the reverse scenario of the MPAA handing out the sexual favours
to the filmmakers:
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